dired-recent - not show correct recent visited directories

Question

Linux Mint 20
Emacs 27
dired, dired-recent

Steps:

1. "recentf-mode" is turn on
2. Go to directory "Download". Use "Jump to bookmark" (C-x r b). Input "Download"
3. As result in Dired mode open folder "/home/alexeij/Downloads/"
4. Go to directory "Temp". Use "Jump to bookmark" (C-x r b).  Input "Temp"
5. As result in Dired mode open folder "/home/alexeij/Temp/"
6. Go to directory "dev". Use  "Jump to bookmark" (C-x r b).  Input "dev"
7. As result in Dired mode open folder "/home/alexeij/dev/"

Nice. Now I want to see history of recent visited directories in chronological way.

So I use:

dired-recent-open

But in minibuffer show another directories.

Why?

Answer 1

You might want to try Dired+. It offers these commands for use with recentf:

• diredp-add-file-to-recentf
• diredp-add-this-to-recentf
• diredp-dired-recent-dirs C-x D r
• diredp-dired-recent-dirs-other-window C-x 4 D r
• diredp-dired-recent-files C-x D R
• diredp-dired-recent-files-other-window C-x 4 D R
• diredp-do-add-to-recentf
• diredp-do-remove-from-recentf
• diredp-remove-file-from-recentf
• diredp-remove-this-from-recentf

In particular, diredp-dired-recent-dirs should do what I think you're looking for:

diredp-dired-recent-dirs is an interactive compiled Lisp function in dired+.el.

It is bound to menu-bar subdir diredp-dired-recent-dirs, C-x D r.

(diredp-dired-recent-dirs BUFFER &optional ARG FILES)

Open Dired in BUFFER, showing recently visited directories.

Like diredp-dired-recent-files, but limited to recent directories. A directory is recent if any of its files is recent.

The doc of diredp-dired-recent-files, which the above refers to, tells you about using a prefix arg. Note that C-u or 0 as prefix arg prompts you for the ls switches to use, and you can specify chronological order with the switches (e.g. switch t).

You can also just use option diredp-default-sort-arbitrary-function to sort the entries however you want.

diredp-dired-recent-files is an interactive compiled Lisp function in dired+.el.

It is bound to C-x D R.

(diredp-dired-recent-files BUFFER &optional ARG FILES)

Open Dired in BUFFER, showing recently visited files and directories.

You are prompted for BUFFER (default: Recently Visited Files).

With a numeric prefix arg you can enter names of recent files to include or exclude.

No prefix arg or a plain prefix arg (C-u, C-u C-u, etc.) means list all of the recently used files.

With a prefix arg:

• If 0, -, or plain (C-u) then you are prompted for the ls switches to use.
• If not plain (C-u) then:
• If >= 0 then the files to include are read, one by one.
• If < 0 then the files to exclude are read, one by one.

When entering files to include or exclude, use C-g to end.

The file listing is sorted by option diredp-default-sort-arbitrary-function, if non-nil. If nil (the default) then the listing is in reverse chronological order of opening or writing files you access.

Use g to revert the buffer, as usual. If you use it without a prefix arg then the same files are relisted. A prefix arg is handled as for C-x D R itself.

When called from Lisp:

• ARG corresponds to the raw prefix arg.
• FILES is passed to diredp--dired-recent-files-1. It is used only when the command is used as part of the revert-buffer-function.